Renaissance artists added the magnificent and powerful new dimensions of realism and naturalism to painting, in contrast to earlier artificialism and primitivism. Unfortunately, realism did not extend to representing figures as who they were in their real lives and in their actual settings. So, the next time you stroll through the Medieval and Renaissance galleries of a museum or view artworks from those periods in books and magazines, keep in mind the description of the real Jewish Jesus by Jean Guitton, Bruce Chilton, and James Carroll. It will be an entirely different experience!
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